TOKYO • Japan's government is considering resuming a national travel discount campaign as soon as later this month to help the tourism industry recover from a Covid-19 slump, the Nikkei newspaper said yesterday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Japan's easing of a two-year ban on foreign tourists seeks to balance the enormous economic importance of tourism with concerns that travellers would trigger a Covid outbreak, insiders say. Under the decision, Japan will allow a limited number of foreign tourists on package tours starting June 10. Last week a few "test tours", mainly of overseas travel agents,.
Local governments remain worried that foreign tourists will bring in the coronavirus, the industry executive said, making it difficult to open the country fully.
Japan's easing of a two-year ban on foreign tourists seeks to balance the enormous economic importance of tourism with concerns that travellers would trigger a Covid outbreak.
Japan's easing of a two-year ban on foreign tourists seeks to balance the enormous economic importance of tourism with concerns that travelers would trigger a COVID-19 outbreak, insiders say